You're reading from Mastering Active Directory, Third Edition Design, deploy, and protect Active Directory Domain Services for Windows Server 2022

Product type Paperback

Published in Nov 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801070393

Length 780 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Languages

PowerShell

Tools

Active Directory Domain Services

Concepts

Design

Author (1):

Dishan Francis

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Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Preface

1. Active Directory Fundamentals FREE CHAPTER

2. Active Directory Domain Services 2022

3. Designing an Active Directory Infrastructure

4. Active Directory Domain Name System

5. Placing Operations Master Roles

6. Migrating to Active Directory 2022

7. Managing Active Directory Objects

8. Managing Users, Groups, and Devices

9. Designing the OU Structure

10. Managing Group Policies

11. Active Directory Services – Part 01

12. Active Directory Services – Part 02

13. Active Directory Certificate Services

14. Active Directory Federation Services

15. Active Directory Rights Management Services

16. Active Directory Security Best Practices

17. Advanced AD Management with PowerShell

18. Hybrid Identity

19. Active Directory Audit and Monitoring

20. Other Books You May Enjoy

21. Index

Sites

Sites can be explained as physical locations that contain various AD objects. We should be able to describe these objects using their boundaries. As an example, users, computers, and network devices located in an office location in London can be treated as a site, and these can be identified as unique from similar objects located in the Seattle office. The AD site topology can be divided into four different designs:

Single domain-single site: This is the most common setup for small- and medium-sized businesses. In this setup, there is one site and one domain. When we set up the first domain controller in the infrastructure, it is set up as a single domain-single site by default. This is easy to maintain.
Single domain-multiple sites: In this setup, the infrastructure has only one domain, and it's extended to multiple sites. These sites can be different buildings on the same campus or different geographical locations. Sites are interconnected using physical...